Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 181
So he turned back and picked up the feather.
Who acts: brother · What happens: turn back, pick up · To what, where: feather
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 picked | cc |
| 6 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 picked | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 feather | det |
| 9 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picked | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past | brother | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | brother not said here | the feather | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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